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Dear Laurie et
al. at
Thinking
Allowed,
My goodness,
that was a
particularly
interesting
broadcast
yesterday,
on two hugely
important
subjects:
"community"
and
"creolisation",
which, of
course, are
also
intimately
related. Its
difficult to
know where to
start my
response.
When talking
about
creolisation,
you and your
guest laughed
a great deal
- far more
than I
remember you
laughing
with any of
your other
guests - and
my suspicion
is that it was
nervous
laughter,
betraying your
deep-seated
fear of a
subject that
on the surface
you were
dealing with
in an entirely
rational,
scientific and
disinterested
manner. Or am
I just
projecting my
own fear of
creolisation
onto you?
It is
possible, if
things
continue as
they are, that
when future
historians
(should there
be any) look
back at
Britain of
today,
creolisation
(or whatever
they call it
then) will be
the most
important
single
phenomenon,
since it will
go to the very
heart of who
they are. And
they will be
viewing it
from their own
Creole perspective,
as we now view
it nervously
from our
perspective as
native
Europeans.
This is a
particularly
appropriate
subject for
"Thinking
Allowed ",
because it is
very much
off-bounds,
surrounded by
a
high-security
fence of
imperative
political
correctness.
Anyone who
dares approach
it is caught
in the glare
of
intimidating
search lights
and knows
themselves to
be in the
sights of half
a dozen
"anti-racist"
machine guns.
Thus, your
nervous
laughter,
Laurie,
although I
don't suppose
you will admit
it, even if
you are aware
of it, because
it is probably
more than your
job at the BBC
(the strongest
institutional
force for
creolisation
in the
country) is
worth.
I can now feel
myself
roasting in
the heat of
all those
search lights,
as an army of
"anti-racists"
aim their
guns at me.
To suggest -
or even hint -
that there
might be
something
wrong or
undesirable
about
creolisation
immediately
elicits
condemnation
as "racist".
But I'm going
to do so,
nevertheless,
even if it
means being
gunned down.
I do not think
there is
anything wrong
with a certain
amount of
creolisation.
On the
contrary, it
adds to human
diversity,
which I like -
so long as it
doesn't
undermine my
own sense of
ethnic
identity.
However, there
comes a point,
if it proceeds
unchecked, when
creolisation
stops
increasing
diversity and
starts to
reduce it,
swallowing up
native
peoples,
cultures and
identities,
which arose
because of the
relative
isolation of
human
populations in
the past. For
the last 400
years or so,
increasing
globalisation
has destroyed
far more human
diversity than
it has
created, and
this
destruction in
proceeding
apace.
It is not just
Earth's
biodiversity
(the
rainforests
etc.) that is
in rapid
decline, but
also its human
diversity
(racial,
ethnic,
cultural,
linguistic
etc.). The
driving force
is the same in
both cases
(economic
forces rooted
in man's
animal nature;
see previous
emails), but
the latter is
also being
greatly
facilitated by
our -
understandable,
in view of
recent
history, but
obsessive and
misguided
- fear of
racism, and
the equally
misguided and
perverted
celebration of
mass
immigration
(into our
already
overpopulated
part of the
world!) and
multi-culturalism
(in
moderation,
like the motor
car and
aeroplane, a
blessing, but
in practice -
because
blindly driven
to excess by
our animal
nature - a
curse!).
Unlike you,
Laurie, I am
not going to
pretend that I
am objective
and
disinterested
in respect to
this subject
(I don't work
for the BBC);
on the
contrary, I
feel a very
subjective and
passionate
interest in
preserving my
racial and
ethnic
identity, as
I'm sure a
great many
other people
do, as well
(of all races
and
ethnicities).
I am no longer
going to be
intimidated by
the glare of
"anti-racist"
search lights
or their
poison-(racist)-tipped
arrows, but am
determined to
maintain,
cultivate and
assert (in a
civilised,
non-violent,
humane and
inoffensive
way) my, and
my
descendents', identity
as native
Europeans
(i.e. as white
men and
women).
So, there you
have it,
Laurie
(assuming
it's got past
the censors).
Yours
sincerely
Roger Hicks
www.crownroad.co.uk (website
of "The Crown
Road Community
Project ",
which will
give you a
rough idea of
my views on
the other
hugely
important
subject of
yesterday's
broadcast:
"Community").
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